“VERIFY name/specs before load — LAB's OZ.1 is a lie-angle-balanced zero-torque putter, but exact 2025 naming and subtype are unconfirmed.”
OZ.1 was co-designed by 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott — L.A.B.'s most important tour endorser since 2019 — and announced by the company on November 20, 2024, with the insert-equipped OZ.1i shipping first in December 2024 and the standard all-aluminum OZ.1 following in January 2025. Development reportedly began 'over a beer' with Scott in early 2023. It marks a deliberate style shift for L.A.B.: a half-moon, solid-body mallet shape that is notably tamer and more geometric-modern than the brand's earlier, more unconventional silhouettes (DF 2.1, Mezz.1), aimed at winning over golfers who liked the technology but not the look of L.A.B.'s previous putters.
Extensively covered at launch by PGA Tour's own equipment desk, GolfWRX, Golf.com, Today's Golfer and Plugged In Golf, and notable for Adam Scott himself returning to a traditional-length OZ-family putter on the DP World Tour in September 2025 — but it is a brand-new, currently shipping product without years of secondary-market history behind it yet.
Good fit for golfers drawn to L.A.B.'s technology but who found earlier shapes too unusual-looking — OZ.1's half-moon profile is comparatively conventional. Best suited to those who prefer a softer, quieter feel; golfers wanting a firmer, faster feel off the face should look at the insert-equipped OZ.1i sibling instead. Fitting for lie angle and length matters as much as with any L.A.B. model.
Launched into the modern premium mallet category alongside Scotty Cameron's Phantom line and Odyssey's Ai-One mallets, but built on L.A.B.'s balance-based approach rather than face-insert or MOI-only engineering; it followed Mezz.1 (2022), Link.1 (2023) and DF3 (2024) as the newest major shape in L.A.B.'s current lineup, with an OZ.1i insert variant launched alongside it.
Built on the same Lie Angle Balance zero-torque principle as every L.A.B. putter, keeping the face square through the stroke without manual manipulation; the solid-body aluminum construction (versus the insert-equipped OZ.1i) gives a softer, more muted feel on off-center strikes that some reviewers find more forgiving-feeling than the firmer OZ.1i, though the two share the same head geometry and balance-point forgiveness.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
As a putter still in its first year of retail life, used OZ.1s are scarce and priced close to new; expect roughly $350-$425 privately against the $449 stock price, with limited depreciation so far given ongoing demand and Adam Scott's high-profile use.
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